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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Tomasz Papszun
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:08 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Spoofing IP Address?
> 
> On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 at 10:35:20 -0600, Derek Lamparty wrote:
> > I am getting hammered by worm.sober.u-3.  What are the 
> characteristics 
> > of this worm?  Can it spoof ip addresses in the mail server 
> logs?  I 
> > was trying to track some of the viruses back to the 
> origination point 
> > (there are a lot of them) to let our members know that they 
> might have 
> > a virus.  I contacted a couple and they said that their 
> networks are clean.
> 
> Quite likely.
> The principle is sad nowadays: you can't trust any mail 
> headers beyond your own mailserver's ones.
> 
> -- 
>  Tomasz Papszun    SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland    | And it's only
>  tomek at lodz.tpsa.pl http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/iso/ | ones and zeros.
>  tomek at clamav.net   http://www.ClamAV.net/   A GPL virus scanner
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I didn't know that was possible.  Huh?  Doesn't that really make RBLs
pointless?



Derek Lamparty

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